WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SUHVEY. 



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Nicholas: on Peters creek up 10 miles from its mouth; on 

 Laurel creek; on Otter creek; on Twentymile creek, 

 through Grant and Jefferson districts ; and on Gauley 

 river below the mouth of Peters creek. 



Keported from Summers on New and Greenbrier rivers; 

 Roane, on Pocatalico river; Jackson, on Mill creek; 

 Gilmer, near Glenville ; and Cabell, near Huntington. 

 Wood. — Heavy, hard, close-grained, reddish brown. 

 Uses. — Not commercially important in West Virginia. Wood 



used for boxes, house finish, etc. 



HAMAMELIS VIRGINIANA, L. Witch Hazel. 



Geographic Distrihution. 



Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the valley of the St. Law- 

 rence river to southern Ontario, "Wisconsin and eastern Ne- 

 braska, and southward to northern Florida and eastern Texas, 

 growing usually on the borders of the forest in low rich soil 

 or on the rocky banks of streams; of its largest size and prob- 

 ably only arborescent on the slopes of the high Alleghany 

 mountains in North and South Carolina and Tennessee. 



Vistrihution in ^yest Yirginia. — Small abundant tree, found 



throughout the State. 

 Wood. — Heavy, very hard, close-grained. 



Uses. — Infrequently used for any purpose in West Virginia. 

 Bark sometimes used as a medicine. 



PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS, L. Sycamore. Buttonwood. 



Geographic Distrihution. 



Borders of streams and lakes on rich bottom-lands; south- 

 eastern New Hampshire, northern Vermont and the northern 

 shores of Lake Ontario, westward to eastern Nebraska and 

 Kansas, and southward to northern Florida, central Alabama 

 and Mississippi, and the valley of the Brazos river, and through 

 Texas to the valley of the Devil's river, everywhere common, 

 but most abundant and of its largest size on the bottom-lands 

 of streams in the basin of the lower Ohio and Mississippi. 



Distrihution in West Virginia. — Common throughout the State 



along nearly all streams below 3,000 feet elevation. 

 Wood. — Hard, close-grained, light-colored. 



